/*
 * Copyright 2008 - 2009 Lars Heuer (heuer[at]semagia.com). All rights reserved.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package com.semagia.atomico.dm;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * A representation of a topic map or RDF graph which can be deserialized.
 * 
 * @author Lars Heuer (heuer[at]semagia.com) <a href="http://www.semagia.com/">Semagia</a>
 */
public interface IReadableRepresentation {

    /**
     * Reads a representation from the specified {@link InputStream}.
     *
     * @param in The stream to read from.
     * @throws IOException In case of an error.
     */
    public void read(InputStream in) throws IOException;

}
